Humidor.



. KELSE HUMIDOR.

APPLICATION FILED man, 1912.

Patented Oct. 7, 1913.

Cla/71eme E Zzsecv, @M MM sseceeauoe of? Letters luttent ia'tented @ou 't9 @30 Application filed March 1i, 1912. Serial No. 683,038;

To alt whom. if may concern s Beit known that l, Cninnueu fia-citizen ofthe United States, residing at Lynn$5 county of Essex, State of Massachusette,V have invented au improvement in Humidors, ef which the following description, iii-connection with the accoxnpanglingJ drawin is a speciicatiou, like characters on tlse aiming. representing like parts.

This invention relates to huinidors and heater its oriucipat oh'ect to provide a hunodor vvhficY is special y adapted .for freeping the moist ina email. compartment, such?. for instance, es that in. which cigars or tobacco may be kept. l would state, howevei,. that my invention is not limited its use to hee loing cigars or tobacco moist, but is capable o general use Wherever itis desired to keep the atmosphere in a. sir-:all compartment in a moist state.-

@ther ohfects of my' invention? are tov provide a. novel device of thisI sort embodying a receptacle for containing? Water?y a Wick tubelfiaving a wich therein, which leads into the water in the receptacle,. and means for controlling the extent of the evaporiat'ing surface of the Wick, thereby controlling the rapidity of' evaporation.

@ther objects of the invention are to simplify and improve lnnnidersn ali as Will be more fully hereinafter' described and pointed outv in. the ap ended claims In order to il vetratel the principie of the invention i have shown it in the drawings as it might be embodied in a huruidor for keeping cigars moist9 hut'as stated above?, the invention is capable of a wide range' et use, and by properly modifying the shape of the container or interior holder it may he used for a large variety of yurigosesfitln the drawings; igure i is vertical sectionalvievv throu hf a device illustrating" one embodiment of t e invention; Fig; 2 is a1 sectonon the line' uw? Figc l; Figi. 3' is e vertical section through a device showing a dii'ereut embodiment of my invention.

Referring now to Figa i, i *designates a jar or container: which is. referahlvy made of glassy although thel particular materiell of which it is made does not torni any part of the. invention This or container is shown as open: at the top.y @n the interior of' the jar is an, evaporatiugg device which has associated' therewith means for holding cigars. The. eva@oratiunggy device comprises a receptacle 2 adanted to contsiu water or EL KELSEA,

otherr liquid, a wich tube 3 communicating with the receptacle and. provided with one or more evaporating aV ertures 4'-, a Wick 5 which is contained Witfiin the Wick tube 3 and the Ilower end of which leads into the receptacle 2, and a controllin member 6 in the form of a sleeve movabl mounted ou the wick tube and by which the area of the enings 4 may he variedthereby varying te amount of Wick sur ace which is euposed. lnv the embodiment shown in Fig. l the receptacle 2 and wich tube 8 have associated therewith a cigar holder. This cigar holder is shown as comprising a positioning member 7 in the form of a disk or plate whichl is secured to the Wick tube 3 and is provided with e ertures 8 for the reception of cigars; 50, an a supporting member 9 sitmated' beneath the positioningv member and adapted to support the cigar, said su pontiug niemeer being. preferably rovid E with small apertures i0y iriv which tie ends ci the cigars may he received. Flie supporting member may loe sustained in any suitehle Way. is herein shown have provided tie bolts 11, the upper ends of which are screw threaded into the under side of the positionn ing member 7 and thel lower ends et which extend through the supporting, member 9 and have nuts i2 screwed thereto. Said nuts are in the form oig cate nuts and constitute legs on which the cigar supporting device is sustained. l

The vvich tube 3 is shown' as screvvthreaded tothe positioning member 'El The receptacle 2 is adjnstahly couuected to the wich tube so that it can he readily removed when it isnecessary to ll it ,For this purpose i have shown the receptacle as provided with screw threads at its topl which scree1 threads engage the screw-threaded' 'i'ange 13 of a cover ist The wich tuhe 3 entendsv through the cover 14 andl hes a nut 15 screw-threaded to its lower endgsaid nut'operat'ing to clamp the cover 14 tothe positioning member 7L Thel said positioning member is shovvnI as provided' with au auuuiar ange i6 which forms a sort of recess in which theccver ift is received.

l? designates a cover for tliejar or recepv taule l., li have herein provided a coni-recn tion between the cover i74 and the cigar sugorting; device sothet when the cover i7 is lifted' from the jar the cigar? supporti-ng device can he lifted' from the jar, thus making the cigars accessihie herein shown the .cover 17 has secured thereto a depending movement or' the stem and wick tube.

stem 18 which has' telescopic engagement with the up er end of the wick tube 3, means being provided forlimiting the telescpc e wick tube is shown as having a slot 19 in which is received a pin 2O extending from the lstem 18. While any connection between the stem and the cover 17 may be employed,

I have herein shown the upper end of the stem as provided with a screw-threaded nipple 21, which extends through the cover and to which a knob or handle 22 is screwed.

In using the device the receptacle 2 will be filled with water and the controller 6 will be adjusted on the wick tube so as to expose any desired proportion of the area of the slot 4. The cigars are then placed in the cigar holding portion of the device and the cigars and evaporating mechanism are placed in the jai; .1. The controller 6 may be adjusted so that any desired degree of humidity can be maintained'in the jar 1. IVhenever a person desires to use a ci ar he will remove the cover 17 from the jar by grasping the handle 22, and during the initial upward movement of the cover the pin 20 will slide upwardly inthe slot 19. When the pin reaches the upper end of the slot then further upward movement of the cover will lift the cigar holder out from the jar 1. The cigars can be readil removed from the holder after the latter as been taken out from the jar 1, and because ofthe telescopic 'connection between the cover 17 and the wick tube the distance between the upper end of the cigars and said cover will be sutilcient so that the cigars can be readily removed from the supporting member and positioning member 7 without striking the cover.

When the cigar holder and evaporating apparatus are in the jar 1 and the parts are in the position shown in full lines 1, the cover 17 stands comparativel close to the upper end of the cigars, and t is makes a compact device which is only slightly taller than the length of the cigar.

It will be noted that the positioning member 7 is curved slightly. The urpose of this construction is to facilitate t e removal of individual cigars from the cigar holder, for when the said holder has been removed from the jar 1 any individual cigar may be yrst lifted vertically to tree the lower end thereof from the supporting member 9 and then the upper end of the cigar may be swung loutwardly beyond the cover 17, lwhen it can be readily removed from its aperture 8.

rIhe device herein shown for controlling the amount of evaporation from the wick can be embodied in humidors of various constructions, and in Fig. 3,1 have shown a humidor embodying my invention and having a general form and shape of a cigar.

Such a device can be placed in a cigar case with other cigars and will serve to keep the cigars moist. In this latter embodiment of the invention the Water-containing receptacle is shown at 30 and it has a cap 31 re- -can be placed in a cigar case -with other cigars 'and will serve to keep them moist.

It will be obvious that the-'evaporating apparatus herein described might be used vin a variety of other Ways4 than those illus- A trated in the drawing, and therefore I do not consider that my invention is limited to the constructural features herein shown.

I-Iaving fully described my invention, what I claimlas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a humidor, the combination with a closed receptacle for containing water, of a wick tube extending therefrom, a wick in the wicktube and extending into the receptacle, said wick tube having a lateral opening lthrough which a portion of the wick is exposed, and a controller iitting the wick tube and movably mounted thereon and by which the area of said opening may be varied.

2. The combination with a jar or casing having an open top, of an article-holding rack adapted to be received in the casing, a water-'containing receptacle sus ended from the rack, a wick tube leading -om said receptacle and extending above the rack and provided with an opening, a wick in said tube, and a controller to vary the size of the opening. A

3. In a humidor, the combination with aA jar or casing having an 4open top, of a cove' for said top, a water-containing receptacle, a wick tube communicating therewith and provided with an opening, a wick in said wick tube, a portion of which is exposed through the opening, an article-holding rack associated with the wick tube and adapted to be izo cigar-holding rack to be received Within the n testimony whereof, I have signed my casing, a Water-containing receptacle susname to this specification, in the presence tained by said rack, a Wick tube extending of two subscribing Witnesses.

from said receptacle, a Wick Within said CLARENCE H. KELSEA. tube, a cover for the receptacle, and a stem Witnesses: secured to said cover and having a limited BERTHA F. HEUSER,

telescopic engagement with the Wick tube. THOMAS J. DRUMMOND. 

